Let heathen scorn and vilify
The zealous servants of the Lord,
More zealous, more determin’d I
Hold fast the faith, and keep the word,
Bolder confess my Saviour’s name,
And triumph in the glorious shame.
Let heathen scorn and vilify
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I will yet be more vile.”—[II. Sam.] vi. 22. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 167.
Publishing: Public Domain